For the month of February, the Cinémathèque of Nice invites you to the retrospective of two major authors of French and American cinema: François Truffaut and director Clint Eastwood.
The Cinémathèque also hosts monthly events including: Jean Douchet’s film club, Ollivier Pourriol’s studio-philo, Passport to Latin America, classics, and catch-up sessions…
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
“From The 400 Blows to Confidentially Yours, his work presents itself as a kaleidoscopic self-portrait. He wrote his life like a novel, but it’s through cinema that he revealed it, entirely.” (Isabelle Regnier, Le Monde).
A brilliant and provocative film critic, a leader of the New Wave, producer, screenwriter, actor, and director, François Truffaut has inspired numerous filmmakers around the world… His cinema, based on the observation of daily life and character study, mixes humor and tenderness. The Cinémathèque pays homage to this sensitive filmmaker with a program in two parts (2nd part in March).
For the first time, François Truffaut steps behind the camera with The Mischief Makers, a short film about childhood that is both innocent and cruel, a theme dear to him which he revisits with great sensitivity in his first feature film The 400 Blows. The film participates in the emergence of the New Wave and marks the start of the Antoine Doinel saga, portrayed by Jean-Pierre Léaud, whom we find again in Stolen Kisses and Bed and Board.
With Shoot the Piano Player, Truffaut pays homage to the American film genre, of which he was a staunch supporter. Then he makes Jules and Jim, brilliantly portrayed by Jeanne Moreau, and The Soft Skin, inspired by a true story, which nonetheless remains a very personal work. The director experimented with noir films with The Bride Wore Black and Mississippi Mermaid with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, or with science fiction with Fahrenheit 451, a dark and disenchanted futuristic film.
CLINT EASTWOOD
The retrospective continues and concludes with Sudden Impact, the 4th installment of the adventures of the maverick cop whose direction Eastwood signs for the first time. The detective film holds a significant place in the director’s filmography, who also filmed: The Rookie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, True Crime, and Blood Work. After a foray into war films, Heartbreak Ridge, Clint Eastwood makes a vibrant tribute to the musical genius of Charlie Parker, who revolutionized jazz, in Bird.
Based on Peter Viertel’s novel recounting the filming of John Huston’s The African Queen, White Hunter Black Heart delivers the portrait of a director consumed by an overwhelming obsession. Eastwood then returns to the genre that made him famous and delivers an indisputable masterpiece of the Western: Unforgiven. With A Perfect World and The Bridges of Madison County, the filmmaker depicts the intensity of feelings through two very different genres.
Eastwood produces many ambitious works and signs poignant films with Million Dollar Baby, Changeling, and Gran Torino, a magnificent lesson in humanity and his latest acting film.
Free evenings upon presentation of the subscription card
THE FILM CLUB OF JEAN DOUCHET – THE ESSENTIALS
Free entry upon presentation of the subscription card
An unmissable event for cinema enthusiasts who are increasingly attending Jean Douchet’s masterful analysis of a classic of the 7th art.
Wednesday, March 2 at 8 pm – City Girl by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, an overlooked masterpiece of silent cinema. Imbued with the late 1920s American aesthetic, City Girl marks the peak of a filmmaker capturing the final hours of the silent era.
“No matter that he did not create the grand work he dreamed of, since Murnau seeks to express his thoughts frame by frame… and thus develop the very movement of thought.” (Jean Douchet).
OLLIVIER POURRIOL’S STUDIO-PHILO: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 AT 6 PM
“The Psychiatric Power” with clips from films: Spellbound, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Sixth Sense…
Free entry upon presentation of the subscription card.
AND STILL
Classics to revisit: You Can’t Take It With You by Frank Capra; Shoeshine by Vittorio De Sica; The Lovely Antonio by Mauro Bolognini; Escape by Night by Roberto Rossellini; Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte by Robert Aldrich; Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad by Jean-Daniel Pollet; Hunting Scenes from Bavaria by Peter Fleischmann.
And Catch-up Sessions with: Keeping Mum by Niall Johnson; Times and Winds by Reha Erdem; Greenberg by Noah Baumbach; The Portuguese Nun by Eugène Green; Tales from the Golden Age by Cristian Mungiu, Hanno Höffer, Ioana Uricaru, Răzvan Mărculescu, Constantin Popescu; The Secret in Their Eyes by Juan José Campanella; The Secrets by Raja Amari; Rapt by Lucas Belvaux; An Ordinary Execution by Marc Dugain.
Practical information
Subscription card: 1€
Session: 2€
Students, school children: 1.50€
Information: www.cinematheque-nice.com
